A growing number of Southern Baptist churches are home to a shrinking number of Southern Baptists. Total membership in the Southern Baptist Convention fell almost 2% to 14,525,579 from 2018 to 2019, according to the Annual Church Profile compiled by LifeWay Christian Resources in cooperation with Baptist state conventions. The decline of 287,655 members is […]
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Report: Racial healing, Great Commission, Cooperative Program headline SBC Advance
Amid unprecedented challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as racial unrest and tumult after the recent death of an African American man in police custody, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee offered a healing balm Tuesday (June 2) with SBC Advance. The two-hour online event was not intended to replace the 2020 SBC […]
First Person: We must not be silent on racism
These recent days in American life have truly been difficult. We have witnessed with our own eyes, in the streets of one of our major cities, a black man being murdered slowly and cruelly. Over the course of a long eight minutes, George Floyd cried out for help and mercy while a white police officer […]
Chicago pastors stand for justice, against violence
After a weekend of unrest in his city, Ron Gray stood on Monday morning with a group of fellow pastors in front of the only grocery store in their neighborhood. The Jewel Osco had survived the worst of the looting, with some groceries stolen and the windows broken out. The local pastors were there to […]
Lake Sallateeska Camp manager named
Brock Vandever will join the IBSA staff as camp manager at Lake Sallateeska, the state association’s camp facility in southern Illinois. He and his wife, Polly, previously served 10 years in West Africa, where they worked to plant churches among a people group that is less than 1% Christian. The Vandevers also helped equip local […]
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